Reputation: 140

cannot find module 'cookie' while using the express module

I need your help on building rest API using express.. I have tried many versions of express. that also have CookieParser middleware but I'm just getting the above error...

  Error: Cannot find module 'cookie'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)`

I installed the cookie-parser globally and using Express version 4.... the code snippet is below.

var express = require('express'),
cookieParser = require('cookie-parser'),
bodyParser = require('body-parser'),
session = require('express-session'),
mongoose = require('mongoose'),
api = require('./routes/api.js') ,  
app = express();

app.use(session({ secret: 'angcms', saveUninitialized: true, resave: true })); app.use(cookieParser());

Upvotes: 8

Answers (6)

cassepipe

Reputation: 653

I have had the issue and I am not sure what the reason was but what fixed it for me was to go in node_modules/cookie-parser and look at the package.json inside it. I then installed the dependancies listed there and it solved the problem.

(Those dependancies were cookie and cookie-signature)

Upvotes: 0

SalmanShariati

Reputation: 3893

I had the same problem in Azure, no one of the solutions above worked. This one solved my problem:

npm i yarn -g
yarn add cookie-parser

Upvotes: 1

Marius SOUNOUVOU

Reputation: 67

To solve this problem, create another project and install cookie or open other project that have cookie installed and open node_module and copy the folder cookie and replace it.

This problem happens because you have npm and yarn installed if you open the node module folder, the cookie folder is empty because yarn or npm did not install the package

Upvotes: 2